Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-09-20
A DRUGGIST 8 MISTAKE.
A Sick Mans Wife Disrelards the Druggists
Advice and So Saves the Life Of
Her husband.

lam a wood carver by trade and 1t is
out of M, line to write letters, but my
wife thought 1t was no more than right
that | should let You know what your
remedy has done Tor me, and think
SO too.
live in East 18TH street. west of
Third avenue. a,rs ~ lived there for
about tweiitysthre; ars. where own
real estate. Up ne time ann about
30 mention h;t D-s,n a strong. well
man. There was always more or less
malaria in ihe'nri .i.is., hooi, bat had
not personally S,irted flomit. 1t was
in 1880 had NY iirs. attack. 1t cam
on as such attacks commonly do, witt
headaches. loss Of appetite and ambi
ton, chilly sensations with shght lever
afterwards, Il disposition To y1Wh am
stretch, and SD forth. was employed
1T that time al Kiliians u Brothers.
furniture manufacturers. III Ncsi 3-u
street. l hoped the attack would wear
1T. but as II dl,iu | consulted 4 we'll
<uown and able pht cian in MORRIS
lnia who gave me q lnsn" aud tots me
what to do. | can sum up the lirsi four
and half or five years ri ny cNpcri-
ance in lew words. Occasionally l
| was laid up for Il day or two, bni on
| the whole stuck to my work. Kept
| taking quinine, in larger doses from
| wear to wear, and kept on getting weak
| err and worse. slowly but surrey. all the
| time. My trouble was now well de-
| fined and its symptoms were steady ana
| regular l had dumb a@uc III its worst
form, and it was grinding me down IN
spite of all that | could do or the doc
| tors could do. 1t held me liz Il grip ftEe
| fire in a burning coat n,nc. The poison
had gone all through and over me and
nothing was able to touch it. | was
fast losing flesh and strength. and about
! March, 1884, l Knocked off work entire
ly and went home to be down sick. and
to die for all | could tell ran down SO
rapidly that | soon became unable to
walk any distance Later | went from
room to room in my own house only by
friends holding me up by each arm. The
doses of quinine were lncreased untll 4
often fooH thirty grams Gt dose ne
effects of this tremendous stimulation
was to make me nearly wild. Ii broke
my sleep all up. and often walked the
floor, or staggered about it, all night
long. scarcely able to bear any noises
or even human speech. My temper
was extremely irritable. As to food,
one of my little children would eat
more in a meal than | could in day.
lwould order food and then turn from
It in disgust. / lived on quinine and
,ther stimulants and or myself. like a
bear in winter. The qunine set my
aead in whill. and the liquor-given
/ as a medicine-made my stomach so
sick 1 could not tolerate it.
From It's pounds (my proper weight
ran down to 81 pounds-the weight
: of a light girl-and was scarcely better
| cEo latnn
If anybody had taken Ratchet ana
: knocked me do,on and KILLED me L should
!. hare been better off.
During the latter part of this period
early in 1886, my physician said
y miller, there's no use in my taking
8 any more money of you, / can do yoI
!, any good. | might pour pounds of qui
y nine down your throat and it wouldn'
II help you.
$ On the strength of this gave up the
use of quinine altogether, and made III
my mind to do nothing more and tax
k my chances.
9 Three weeks afterwards-about tn
last of May-my wife saw an advertise
o ment of Kaskine in a New York paper
o she told me of it. | said: ''Stutf ant
= nonsense, it can't do me any good.
But she went to druggists, neverthe
sr less. to get it. The druggist advises
10 her against Kaskine: he said it wa
nothing but sugar; that she ought no
to throw away her money on 1T, &c
He said he didn't keep it. but could &c
i'll it if she insisted on having it. TURF
ne away in disgust my wife spoke t
- our neighbor, Mr.. A. G.. Hegewald
he who got her bottle at drug store
J. Sixth avenue.
;, Almost against my will. and withoI
the least faith, l began taking it.
n. one week l was better. / began
% sleep. stopped - seeing ghosts"
m began to have an appetite and to gal
III strength This was now the first
ex June, 1886, and by the end of TIN
NJ month was back at my bench at c.
Smiths scroll saving factory In 1l6i
lie street, where | work now.
ed Since then / have never lost a da
Inn from sickness. Taking Kaskine onl
about forty pellets in four equal dos
ne a day, continued to gain. The M
TO- laria appeared to be killed in my sy
~ tenn. and now I've got back my o
GU weight-I75 pounds-and my o
cd strength to labor. am an astonis
a ment to myself and to my friends, al
=. if Kaskine did not do this don't knC
IN what did. The only greater thing
he could do would be to bring dead M
m. to life. FREDERICK A. MILLER,
$50 East 157th Street, New Yor
P. S.-For the absolute truth Of t
above statement refer to the follow
gentlemen, who are personally ;
3, quainted with the facts: Mr. Ale